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Eventually Haley started carrying a tape recorder around with him at all times to dictate his family tales. Within six weeks he piled up more than 800 pages of transcript. From this raw material, Writer Ernest Kinoy and Producer Stan Margulies constructed a plot that chronicles Haley's family from 1882 to 1965. Roots 2 opens in Henning, Tenn., where Chicken George settled the family at the end of Roots 1. The show's climax will dramatize Haley's arrival in Gambia to search for traces of his African forebear, Kunta Kinte. Along the way, Roots...
...that--an art, nor a science--and cannot be exercised with the precision of a dean--human precision, varying according to individuals. Sometimes we make a mistake--just as sometimes two incompatible souls find themselves sharing a freshman room, or a student is called on the carpet because his transcript has been misread. And, sometimes we lose our tempers, give way to emotion, and sound almost as vindicative and petty as the average speaker at a Faculty debate. If anyone believes that we might, by arguing for an objective apporach to the news--an approach that is neither...
...what he considered bad faith on Begin's part. The Israeli Premier, in turn, was angry at what he took to be Egyptian duplicity in demanding a reduction of the buffer zone. Some of the confusion could perhaps have been cleared up, by a careful rereading of the transcript of the private talks between Sadat and Begin in Jerusalem. Unfortunately, no record was kept of those meetings...
...Soviet scientist handed him a paper on a seemingly harmless topic, parapsychology. During four menacing interrogations, Toth was repeatedly asked about his meetings with Shcharansky; he strongly denied receiving any sensitive scientific material from Shcharansky. Before his release from prison, Toth was obliged to sign a protocol, or transcript of his interrogation, whose accuracy he could not verify because it was written in Russian. Last week the protocol was produced in court as evidence that Shcharansky had passed defense secrets to Toth...
Even with long, detailed explanations, he speaks in perfect sentences. There is a precision to his talk that doesn't really hit you until you look back over a transcript of his conversation...